“A company’s ability to respond to unplanned events, good or bad, is a prime indicator of its ability to compete.”
Bill Gates
Business @ the Speed of Thought (Primary source)
Business @ the Speed of Thought, co-authored with Collins Hemingway, is Bill Gates’ second major book and his most sustained argument for how digital technology should reshape the internal workings of a company.
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“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.”
— Bill Gates Primary source“Few skills are more important than knowing how to distinguish what’s true from what’s false.”
— Bill Gates Primary source“The axiom that you learn more from your failures than your successes is trite but absolutely true.”
— Bill Gates Primary source“People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten.”
— Bill Gates Primary source“The noblest question in the world is, what good may I do in it?”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“If you have the ability, you have the obligation.”
— A.P. Møller Disputed“Where there’s no law, there’s no bread.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”
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